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People get paid money to do a lot of dumb shit. Those sign twirlers you see on the corner? Those jovial motherfuckers somehow manage to turn standing around into a career. Hell, I blog my little heart out and live a baller life.
Well, Darren Rovell tweeted out how much professional video gamers make. And it made me sick.
E-Sports gamer salaries are leaking out. Here's Ember's NA Challenger Series LoL team payroll (via @Slasher) pic.twitter.com/OUxvvLLgb0
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 30, 2015
Goldenglue is about to rake in $92,000 this year? Gleeb is making a cool $72,500? You’ve gotta be kidding me.
When I saw this and read “E-Sports,” I was like, “Oh, cool, these guys are really good at Madden and FIFA.” No. These guys are good at games that I’ve never even heard of before. Counter-Strike. Dead or Alive 4. StarCraft II. I mean, these are probably relatively popular in the gamer realm, but in the world I’m living in? There’s not a chance I’d be caught playing them. Well, unless someone’s offering me $92,000 to do so.
I’d say I’m going to go out and score some Adderall and get right to it, but apparently that’s banned now in the “E-Sports” biz. I’ll stick to endlessly scrolling Instagram and watching bowl games for now. .
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Apparently its like 10 hours of “training” everyday and you live in a packed house with your teammates. After typing that out, I guess there are worse things in life.
It’s all fun and games until you get carpal tunnel and arthritis in both hands by age 25.
Ha, I see what you did there.
Y’all need to realize that these guys’ “careers” are very short lived. After 5 or 6 years they’re not able to keep up anymore and then they’re out. And what are they going to do when they have no real work experience?
Move back home with mom?
Did they ever move out?
Not to defend the nerds, but the guys age out at around 23 in esports. Although that is later then alot of people go to school, they easily could take the money they made and go to college. So not having alot of skills at that age really doesn’t matter.
That’s fair, but as as 24 year old with multiple years of professional experience plus internships in my industry, I’m a little wary of hiring a 28 year old who just now got his bachelor degree. Would be nice to have that kind of savings going into college, though.
I bet if you break down their hourly pay it is less than minimum wage. Nerds like that spend ungodly amount of hours on video games (as it should be, because videogames.) But you probably have to be in the top 0.5% to even have a chance at winning cash let alone a legit contract. Not for me. I’ll take my steady paycheck.
Hate to be this guy. To make 75k in a year, you would have to work every hour of the year (8760 hours) for about $8.50 an hour
So maybe they pull in $18/hr for 4 years at the sacrifice of their eye sight and overrall health on top of not getting laid. Sounds fun.
I’ll be that guy: I don’t trust anyone who “games” more than about 2 hours a week after the age of 16 or so. Go get drunk or laid or get a job or something. Preparing for the downvotes.
I guess you read some Chaucer by the fire every night before bed, right?
I play with my kid, read some business and car blogs, watch the news, do my wife if it’s a good night, and then go to sleep.